The news was viewed as seri­ous because it was the second time this week that crowds had attackedand killed Moslems. Twenty‐one Moslem mill work­ers were killed and seven in­jured Monday night in Calcutta when a mob with knives at­tacked men going to work on a night shift.

The violence apparently is an outgrowth of tensions that arose last December when a Moslem relic, a reputed hair of the prophet Mohammed,was stolen from a mosque in Kash­mir. The theft was followed by anti‐Hindu riots and killings in East Pakistan, which in turn provoked massive Hindu at­tacks on Moslems in Calcutta in January. ‘

Indian reaction to the vio­lence in East Pakistan was to facilitate the entry of Hindu refugees into India.

The Hindu refugees are Pakistani citizens and Pakistani and other critics of Indian policy have charged that India is abandoning the principles of secularism written into her Constitution by expelling Mos­lems from Assam on the ground that they are illegal immigrants from Pakistan while welcoming Hindu refugees who have the same national legal status as the persons being evicted.